So all summer I have had a great
fear that one day I would somehow mess up and end up going to lead a cave tour
and not have my key in my pocket. That would be very bad news because without
that key I cannot get in or out of the cave. Well.... today it happened. It
really did. I went to give the 11:30 tour and as I arrived at the elevator
building I reached inside my pocket and did not have a key....
I have two keys on a little carabineer.
One is the key to my truck, and the other is the key to everything here at the
cave. Well I had driven into town last night and automatically put my keys down
with my wallet and cell phone and not with the other things (like flagging and
a lighter) that I always carry with me at work. When I was putting things in my
pockets this morning before heading to open up the visitor center apparently I
somehow failed to notice I did not have my keys. And the fact did not come to
my attention until I was arriving at the elevator with 15 visitors to go down
into the cave (I enter a code on a keypad to get into the building in the
morning so I had not needed the key for anything yet). So I had to tell them to
wait while I ran home (quite literally--I ran all the way to the house and back
in my full dress uniform) to retrieve said key. Thankfully I was able to do so
and was only three minutes late starting the tour, but it was still pretty
ridiculous.
So yes, it is apparently possible
for me to be a total spaz and not bring my key with me to work, and thus be
unable to get into the cave.
Oops!
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